Despite unarguable proof regarding its devastating effects on human life and the economy, America’s fatal attraction to alcohol has continued unabated since before our nation was established. Alcohol use crosses all social, religious, economic, political, and racial lines. Habitual alcohol consumption has become so accepted and integrated into America’s cultural fabric, that our citizens seem oblivious to: the moral hypocrisy it encourages, the social damage it wreaks, and the physiological/psychological threat it poses to our nation’s future.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION

Cigarette smoking in the US did not really decrease until its serious health threats were taken up as a national crusade, and tobacco users were essentially scared into abstaining. Short of that situation occurring with alcohol consumption, it’s hard to envision a moral campaign for abstinence that would have any more success than the failed Prohibition laws of a hundred years ago.